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iPod Overheats, Causes Train Delay in Tokyo

A Tokyo commuter train was delayed Friday due to a burning smell that was caused by an Apple iPod owned by one of the passengers.

The train was stopped in western Tokyo's Setagaya Ward for eight minutes — quite a long time for Tokyo's busy train schedule — at around 8:20 a.m. local time. "When a member of staff went to investigate inside the train, a passenger came over showing him that the iPod she was listening to had burst apart," the spokesman of the rail line operator Tokyu Corp told Reuters. No injuries were reported.

The timing is bad for Apple, with Apple Japan recently admitting overheating problems in first generation iPod nanos and offering replacements to customers. The exact model of the iPod that caused the accident on the train, however, remains unknown.

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